You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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Now and then the voices would come back when I was out alone, like someone calling me, but what they wanted me to do I did not know.Black Elk
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk
I was sixteen years old and more, and I had not yet done anything the Grandfathers wanted me to do, but they had been helping me.
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And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
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I cured with the power that came through me.
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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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